A PERMANENT INDUSTRY. 



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fish in profusion, which contribute to the support of 

 the great schools of cod which find their home there. 

 Astounding are these great processes of nature ! The 

 vast battalions of icebergs, the terror of mariners, 

 sailing past these shores and often anchoring on Lab- 

 rador and in the bays of Newfoundland, bring with 



CURING COD AT HARBOR BRITON. 



them the slime food 011 which the almost microscopic 

 crustaceans live. These in turn furnish food for the 

 caplin, the squid and the herring, which with multi- 

 tudes of other species are food for the voracious cod. 

 When the cod is assimilated by man this great circle is 

 complete : the big fishes devour the little fishes, and we 

 have another evidence of the "survival of the fittest." 



